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It's nice that they're finally adding features to make administration less asinine, like a curses UI (long overdue), the ability to edit connection information
by cookiecaper 12y ago
It's nice that they're finally adding features to make administration less asinine, like a curses UI (long overdue), the ability to edit connection information without automatically reloading, somewhat-less-broken VPN behavior, etc.
For too long NetworkManager has been a "use this if you're lazy and normal" solution. In practice, I don't know any user who does more than a conventional wifi/wired connection that kept it enabled.
On the one hand, it's good that they're addressing this. On the other, it's kind of astonishing that stuff hadn't yet come in all of the years that Ubuntu and Gnome have been trying to stuff NetworkManager down everyone's throats.
- notsoMicrosoft 12y agoUm nmcli is plenty useful and has been for sometime. I use it+bash to bring up a randomly selected VPN endpoint at login. It's worked well for that and any other normal VPN stuff I need it to do for a while now. It is nice to have curses interface for those that like that kind of thing. To me the biggest improvement will be the ability for it to get along with other methods of interface control like ip,config,etc. NM is fine for non-server use cases. Looks like now it will be that much better.